The Fantastical Art Of Jim Pitts: Rolling Back The Years

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David A. Riley [ed.] - The Fantastical Art Of Jim Pitts: Rolling Back The Years (Parallel Universe, 2017)

David A. Riley - Introduction
David A. Sutton - In Black And White: The Early Art of Jim Pitts
The British Fantasy Society: Dark Horizons and The BFS Bulletin
The Artist In Fandom: Jim Pitts interviewed by Nick Caffrey
Nick Caffrey - The Jim Pitts Folk Quartet: Early Years of a Lifelong Friendship
Michel Parry's Spaced Out and Savage Heroes
John M. Harvey - Spectre Press
Stephen Jones - Jim Pitts & Fantasy Tales
Kadath magazine
Ramsey Campbell - Jim Pitts
Legend Horror Classics, 1975
BFS Folio
Gaslight & Ghosts: World Horror Convention, 1988
Adrian Cole - Jim Pitts: From The Dark Regions of the Voidal Universe to the Twisted Pulpworld of Nick Nightmare
Brian Lumley - In Pencil, Pen and Ink: The Uncrowned Prince of the Primal Land!
Peter Coleborn - Jim Pitts: Society Gent & Artist
Skeleton Crew magazine
Graham Hurry - Northern Chills
Experiments In Colour
Fishhead - The Darker Tales of Irvin S. Cobb
Fear magazine: Artist in Residence Jim Pitts
Marianne Dreams, Puffin Books
Shadows Over Innsmouth. The Great Collaberation
Some Sketches
The Hyborian Gazette
R. Chetwynd-Hayes' Looking For Something To Suck

Acknowledgements And Thanks

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That looks great.  I wonder if I can snaffle a review copy!  Jim's got a lot less hair than when I last met him!

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Far the most attractively presented book I've set eyes on this year and an absorbing and informative read into the bargain. Rolling Back The Years is both a glorious celebration of Jim Pitts' talent and, for those of us with an enthusiasm for the golden age of British fantasy and horror fanzines, an invaluable companion to David A. Sutton's On The Fringes For Thirty Years . MRJ is well served with four illustrations from Ghosts: A Tribute to M. R. James and a depiction of a frightening scene from The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas which "was used quite randomly by Francesca in Kadath. It was recently placed on the book cover of Ghosts & Scholars #27, where Rosemary Pardoe used it more appropriately."

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A Jim Pitts mini-gallery.

Ramsey Campbell, The Sneering, Fantasy Tales #14, Summer 1985;
Frank Belknap Long, The Brain-Eaters, World Of Horror #9, 1975.

Ramsey Campbell, The Sneering, Fantasy Tales #14, Summer 1985;
Advertisement for Adrian Cole's First Make Them Mad, Fantasy Tales #3, 1978.

M. R. James, A School Story, Ghosts & Scholars #12, 1990;
M. R. James, The Treasure Of Abbot Thomas, M. R. James Ghosts & Scholars Newsletter #27, 2015).

David A. Riley, Shade Of Apollyon, World Of Horror #6, 1975/5;
Hugh B. Cave, After The Funeral, Fantasy Tales #16, Winter 1986.

James Glenn, The Legacy, Fantasy Tales #8, Summer, 1981.

David A. Sutton [ed.], Voices From Shadow, 1994.

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A personal favourite. Jim Pitts' illustration for R. Chetwynd-Hayes' The Hanging Tree in the BFS's impressive Winter Chills #1, 1987.

Frances Garfield, The Elementals, Fantasy Tales #6, Summer 1980

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Three of several beauties from the Looking For Something To Suck: The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes portfolio.

Jim Pitts

Jim Pitts Family Welcome

Jim Pitts My Mother Married A Vampire